I Am Number Four (2011)

I Am Number Four Synopsis

Three are dead. He is Number Four. D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia)
helms an action-packed thriller about an extraordinary young man, John Smith
(Alex Pettyfer), who is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to
destroy him. Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his
guardian Henri (Timothy Olyphant), John is always the new kid with no ties
to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John encounters
unexpected, life-changing events-his first love (Dianna Agron), powerful new
abilities and a connection to the others who share his incredible destiny.

John (Alex Pettyfer) is an extraordinary young man, masking his true
identity and passing as a typical student to elude a deadly enemy seeking to
destroy him. Three like him have already been killed. He is Number Four.

But let’s just call a Clancy a Clancy here. Those numbers have to be considered a very big disappointment for Paramount, a studio that spared no expense trying to market the film to an audience, any audience really.

Less than two months into the new year and Hollywood has already foisted the first of what is scheduled to be a painful glut of sequels this year. It doesn't bode well that this is a sequel that no one asked for, no one wanted and no one should ever have made. Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, the third in the series which sees Martin Lawrence donning a fat woman suit and sneaking in to live with women, defied all logic by actually getting a release date.

D.J. Caruso started his career directing hard dramas like The Salton Sea, Taking Lives, and Two For The Money. Somewhere around 2007, though, the subjects and target demographics for his films quickly changed. He made two films, Disturbia and Eagle Eye, that appealed to much younger audiences and, as a result, raked in blockbuster cash. Now he’s ready to do it again with I Am Number Four.

It's a year and a week for the Rotten Watch and what a week it is! Martin Lawrence puts on the fat suit again, teenagers get some superpowers and Liam Neeson's world is turned upside down. Remember, I'm not reviewing these movies, but just predicting their final Tomatometer score. Let's take a look at what this week has to offer.

D.J. Caruso has made some solid films with Disturbia and Eagle Eye among his most recent, so there’s no reason to think that just because there’s a couple of good looking teens in love here that he won’t

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Really at this point we could expect Singer to be looking at any youngish up-and-coming actor with a passable English accent, so none of this is all that surprising. But even as Pettyfer's big starring role

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The big screen adaptation of the as-yet-unreleased novel “I Am Number Four” has been on the docket since June when Dreamworks snatched up the rights from authors Joby Hughes and James Frey. You remember James Frey

Smallville vets Al Gough and Miles Millar, will handle the adaptation of the book. Gough and Millar are responsible for writing, however improbably, both Spider-Man 2 and The Mummy 3, so there's seriously no telling how this will turn out